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Independent Body Should Review MMP
Wednesday, 8 August 2001, 3:34 pm | ACT New Zealand
The MMP review committee's report shows the futility of asking MPs to decide how they should be elected, ACT leader Richard Prebble says. More >>
Loopholes For Securities Law Evaders
Wednesday, 8 August 2001, 2:43 pm | ACT New Zealand
Minister Burton's last minute so called legal opinions are laughable says ACT MP Stephen Franks, an experienced commercial lawyer. "He waved the first around Parliament last week to deny offences by the Deputy Prime Minister, Mr Anderton. More >>
ACT - Abolition Of Maori Seats
Wednesday, 8 August 2001, 2:11 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT will continue to press for abolition of Maori seats ' despite the majority decision of the MMP Review Committee to retain them, Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks said. More >>
Govt Inaction On Moratorium Drives Out Research
Wednesday, 8 August 2001, 11:53 am | ACT New Zealand
"As predicted by ACT New Zealand, the Government's paralysis in lifting the moratorium on clinical and field trials for genetically modified organisms is driving research offshore and contributing to the brain drain," says Ken Shirley, ACT's ... More >>
Anderton's New Conference Is A Waste Of Money
Wednesday, 8 August 2001, 11:09 am | ACT New Zealand
The Knowledge Wave conference didn't deliver the message the Government wanted to hear so now Jim Anderton is going to waste public money on another forum, ACT MP Owen Jennings said today. More >>
Government 'Fights' Crime With Weasel Words
Wednesday, 8 August 2001, 10:03 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks says he's appalled on first examination of the detail in Phil Goff's Sentencing & Parole Reform Bill which was introduced into Parliament today. More >>
Malleable Maharey Resorts To Bribery
Wednesday, 8 August 2001, 10:02 am | ACT New Zealand
The Government's new $35 million tertiary fund is a poorly disguised bribe aimed at getting weak Minister Steve Maharey out of his latest fix, ACT Tertiary Education Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman said. More >>
Jennings Challenges Sutton Over Wool Board
Wednesday, 8 August 2001, 12:25 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT MP Owen Jennings is challenging Minister of Agriculture Jim Sutton to take firm action over allegations of mismanagement of the wool industry's future by the Wool Board. More >>
NZ is too Heavy for the Knowledge Wave Surfboard
Tuesday, 7 August 2001, 5:55 pm | ACT New Zealand
New Zealand will never ride the Knowledge Wave while the number of people on welfare continues to rise, ACT leader Richard Prebble says. More >>
California Here We Come
Tuesday, 7 August 2001, 2:26 pm | ACT New Zealand
New Zealand's long term outlook for security of electricity supply could be severely compromised by Minister Pete Hodgson, ACT Environment Spokesman Gerry Eckhoff says. More >>
Knowledge Wave Conference Reads Like ACT Manifesto
Tuesday, 7 August 2001, 11:19 am | ACT New Zealand
Historians often look back and identify turning points which weren't noticed as being significant at the time. More >>
Show Us Your Legislation, Margaret
Monday, 6 August 2001, 6:25 pm | ACT New Zealand
After twenty months of complete inaction, Attorney-General Margaret Wilson has finally realised that she should really do something about holiday trading laws, ACT Finance Spokesman Rodney Hide said today. More >>
Anderton's Nicked: Papers Published on Internet
Sunday, 5 August 2001, 3:17 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT MP Rodney Hide today published secret Government papers detailing Jim Anderton's breaches of the law that cost taxpayers $40 million. More >>
Rankin's Gone: Now Cancel The Sham DWI Merger
Friday, 3 August 2001, 2:14 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Social Services Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman has called on the Government to stop wasting yet more money on its Christine Rankin removal scheme and call off the sham merger of the Department of Work and Income and the Ministry of Social Policy. More >>
Stop Blaming Council For Golden Goodbyes
Friday, 3 August 2001, 11:42 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks says Wellingtonians are wrong to blame each other for the householders' money to sacked high fliers. There is blame due, but it is time the blame is better directed. More >>
Government Wipes Out On The Knowledge Wave
Friday, 3 August 2001, 12:44 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader Hon Richard Prebble said today the Government had been wiped out by the Knowledge Wave conference. More >>
ACT Leader Defends Brash
Thursday, 2 August 2001, 4:56 pm | ACT New Zealand
It's disgraceful that Jim Anderton has attacked Don Brash, saying the Reserve Bank Governor should not have given his real views to the Catching the Knowledge Wave conference, ACT leader Richard Prebble says. More >>
Parliament Cleans Up Another Fine Maharey Mess
Thursday, 2 August 2001, 9:34 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Social Services Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman says the Government has made yet more of a hotchpotch of Social Welfare legislation with its efforts this evening to clean up a legislative foul-up made earlier this year. More >>
Burton Puts Communism Ahead Of Democracy
Thursday, 2 August 2001, 12:42 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Finance Spokesman Rodney Hide said today he was sickened that Defence Minister Mark Burton marched out of a Select Committee that was in session in order to 'honour' the Chinese People's Liberation Army. More >>
Maori Culture In Giant's Barren Garden
Wednesday, 1 August 2001, 4:46 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT commerce Spokesman Stephen Franks says the Government's Trade Marks Bill, having its first reading in Parliament today, will soon freeze Maori culture and symbols into the barren winter of the Giant's Garden. More >>
